Railway car



Oct. 6, 1936. w. H. MussEY RAILWAY CAR Filed July 19, 1954 I l UnT/?" william H b/ZuGSqy mw, 26d/M Huys l Patented Oct. 6, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE RAILWAY CAB Application July 19, 1934, Serial No. 735,944

2 Claims.

This invention relates to railway cars and has for its principal object to reinforce the intersection of the car sides with the car floor by using seat supports as gussets, thereby obviating the 5 necessity of employing other bracing which would unnecessarily add to the total weight of the car.

Further and other objects and advantages will become apparent as the disclosure proceeds and the description is read in conjunction with the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. l is an illustrative, diagrammatic, perspective view of car body framework;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary, cross sectional view showing the seat p'edestals mounted in accordance with the teachings of this invention; and

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the seat pedestal mounting. V

But this specific illustration is for the purpose of disclosure only and the appended claims should be construed as broadly as the prior art will permit.

In the illustrative embodiment of the invention, the car framework consists of a center sill I0, end sills I I and I2 secured to opposite ends of the center sill, door end posts I3, I4, I5 and I8 rising from the end sills, top anti-telescoping plates I1 and I8 which rest upon the door end posts. and top sills I9 and 29 supported by the end posts and connected at the top and bottom by plates 2i and 22 which, with the top sills, form a box girder extending from one end of the car to the other. All of these structural members are preferably made of aluminum alloy, and together constitute the main framework of the car.

The shell of the car is formed by a plurality of curved ribs 23 which extend from the top sills I9 and 20 to the upper portion of the center sill III. The lribs lie in vertical planes and are connected together by various longitudinal framing members, such as a roof stringer 24, a window header stringer 25, a belt rail 26, a seat stringer 2l, a seat sill 28, a side sill 29, and a plurality of oor stringers including an inverted channel 30.

The belly of the car is formed by arcuate bars 3i which extend from the side sills 29 to the bottom of the center sill I0. These bars are strengthened by struts 32 and 33.

A metal skin 34 is applied to the exterior of the skeleton framework, as shown in Fig. 2.

The intersections of the car sides with the car floor are reinforced by seat pedestals 35 which ISISl extend between the seat sills 28 and the stringer 3B. The pedestals are Y-shaped and hollow and include a leg portion 36, and arms 31 and 38. The leg 35 is secured to the floor stringer 30 by fastener plates 39 and angle brackets 40, as shown in Fig. 3, and the arm 3l rests upon, and is secured by rivets, or equivalent means, to an inwardly extending flange 4I formed integrally with the seat sill 28. In this way, the seat pedestal serves as a gusset to reinforce the lower corner of the car body.

Cushioned seats 42, the particular form of which is unimportant here, are supported by the seat pedestals 35, as shown in Fig. 2.

The seat sill arrangement disclosed in this 15 application has been claimed in the application of Martin P. Blomberg, Ser. No. 735,361, filed July 16, 1934.

The invention may be variously embodied within the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim, therefore, isz- 1. In a railway car, skeleton framework including upwardly extending ribs, and a longitudinal side framing member secured to said ribs, the combination of .a seat sill connected 25 to said ribs and having an interlocking connection with said side framing member and provided with an inwardly extending flange, a iioor sill extendinglongitudinally of the car, a pedestal seated on said sill and having inwardly and 30 outwardly extending arms at its upper end, brackets for rigidly connecting said pedestal lto said floor sill, said outwardly extending arm resting on and rigidly secured to said flange and forwardly facing cushioned seats supported by 35 said arms, whereby the pedestal serves as a gusset to strengthen the connection between the side and floor framing.

2."In a railway car having a framework provided with upstanding ribs, a side frame member 40 I arms.

WILLIAM H. MUssEY. 5 

